Smeg Oven Glass Door Exploded

Glass continued to pop and disintegrate after hitting the floor.

Smeg oven glass door exploded. This smeg oven had been in use a grand total of 3 months and was installed only a few months prior to that. There are a number of ways a glass oven door can shatter but most of them have to do with tiny cracks that develop from something hitting the glass. The glass prior to shattering had no obvious cracks or fissures nor was any blunt force applied to it. It could be either the inner or outer glass panels that shattered.

They re supposed to keep hot air in while letting us. At 8 45pm the front glass of the oven door shattered into sheets shards and pieces. The main reasons for the glass to shatter is thermal shock perhaps a cool cloth used to clean a hot door or a sharp knock which happened sometime ago and been forgotten or stress from the door or the oven being twisted. There was no particular rhyme or reason as to when or how oven doors exploded in the cases we heard of from members.

I purchased my smeg oven costing 499 99 from currys on the 31 august 2015. Top oven inside glass exploded the first time it was self cleaned several weeks ago. After several warranty service calls the oven glass and the interior of the door was replaced. Other times the oven was cool and not in use.

I ve not had a full year s use out of the oven but when i attempted to use the pyroclictic cleaning function for the second time yesterday the inner glass door completely shattered. It came with a 5 year warranty. Oven doors are not supposed to explode. Smeg oven sfa561x first time use and glass exploded published 3 years ago brand new smeg oven installed in new apartment on first time the oven door glass exploded at 200c on me and shattered throughout the kitchen as i opened the oven door.

We had hot glass everywhere. Shattered ovens ovens nightmares tempered glass sears kenmore let s start by pointing out the obvious. Smeg glass oven door explosion kel was cooking dinner and on opening the oven door it exploded. Sometimes it happened when the oven was on or running a pyrolytic self cleaning cycle.

Unfortunately there s no way to cook dessert. For betty chan of vancouver bc it was the outer glass in the door of. It seemed to break for no apparent reason. Why are smeg allowed to continue without any recall for this problem.